Remote Splunk Administrator & Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator/Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, data onboarding, Python automation, and OpenTelemetry rollout across on-prem and cloud environments.

The position is remote within the USA and offers an annual salary in the mid-to-high six figures depending on experience, with Cognizant’s incentive program available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on Splunk Administration and Operations experience.
• Experience onboarding customers and integrating enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Splunk platform with high availability and performance.
• Onboard customers and integrate diverse data sources into Splunk.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, search, dashboards, alerts, and infra components.
• Configure indexes, forwarders, search heads, data inputs, and access controls.
• Develop Python-based automation for administration and reporting.
• Support observability initiatives across infrastructure, apps, middleware, and cloud.

Skills

Splunk Administration

Python scripting

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Data source onboarding

Tools

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator/Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, data onboarding, Python automation, and OpenTelemetry rollout across on-prem and cloud environments.

The position is remote within the USA and offers an annual salary in the mid-to-high six figures depending on experience, with Cognizant’s incentive program available.